Original caption: A revision by Coverdale of Matthew's Bible under the patronage of Thomas Cromwell; hence sometimes known as "Cromwell's Bible." The first editions were large folios. In 1538 an order was given to the clergy that "one boke of the...

Original caption: Baskett, and his heirs, with their extension "patents" were the Bible "monopolists" for ninety years. Their carelessly printed editions, sometimes with 2000 errors, caused the work to be nicknamed "The Basketful of Errors." A...

Original caption: Fifth century translation by Mesrop written in the Haikian alphabet of thirty- eight characters (Iron writing) on early paper of the Near East. The Monophysitic doctrine and many other "heresies" in the Armenian translation were a...

Original caption: This century surpassed all others for the beautiful writing found in its MSS. The Carolingian bookhand here represented, is wellnigh perfect. One scribe of the period groans, "Scriber, qui nescit, nullum putat esse laborem."...

Original caption: The Latin Vulgate version, usually attributed to St. Jerome, is here executed in angular Gothic script, eleven lines to the inch, on finest vellum. These small portable Bibles were produced in great numbers by the Dominicans...

Original caption: Latin Vulgate version written in Gothic script, seven lines to the inch, on fine vellum. The calligraphy and ornamentation on this page deserve close inspection. This form of writing is in marked contrast to the minute, much...

Original caption: The first Bible from the famous press of Nicolas Jenson, the French printer from whose Venetian press came nearly a hundred of the finest books produced in the fifteenth century. When Jenson issued a second edition of the Latin...

Original caption: The first printed Latin Bible with glosses, made by Adolph Rusch for the noted Nuremberg printer and publisher Anton Koberger. The marginal glosses are by Strabo, a ninth century writer and the interlinear notes by Anselmus of...

Original caption: This was the second issue of an octavo Bible, the first having been issued by the same printer in 1491. From its small size, this is known as the "Poor Man's Bible". Johann Froben was the celebrated Basel printer who for many...

Original caption: First edition of the Latin Bible in which catch words were used. This version Contains N. de Lyra's celebrated commentary, Postillae litterales et morales. The interlinear notes are in small type, which is seldom found. Most of...

Original caption: A Vulgate text with the famous commentary by the brilliant Franciscan theologian Nicolas de Lyra (1270-1340), which "may be said to mark the first beginnings of a school of natural exegesis." Luther, as well as many other...

Original caption: First complete Bible printed in Greek. Edited by Andreas Asolanus, father-in-law of Aldus. The text is based largely upon the Complutensian Polyglot for the Old Testament, and upon Erasmus' first edition of the New Testament in...

Original caption: The earliest of many Latin Bibles to bear the name of Lucantonio Giunta, the chief rival of the Aldi. His press, which existed for nearly a century, became famous not only for its fine music printing, but also for the extensive...

Original caption: Erasmus' version of the New Testament, which is substituted for the Vulgate, included in many later editions of the Latin Bible. It is said that Erasmus, who charged the apostles with writing bad Greek, changed a number of the...

Original caption: A typical black letter (lettre de forme) Bible of the Low Countries, printed in Leiden. It is contemporaneous with the earliest editions of Tyndale's and Coverdale's Testaments and Bibles, many of which were printed in nearby...

Original caption: In a Bible printed later in this same year, Luther's Warnung wieder den Geiz, occurs for the first time, complaining of incorrect pirated editions of his text. This Leipzig, Europe, Germany, Saxony, Leipzig districtedition,...

Original caption: This Hebrew Bible was compiled and printed in seventeen 16 mo. volumes by the greatest scholar-printer of all times, Robert Stephanus; it was based on the text of Jacob Chayim of Tunis. Francis I appointed Robert Stephanus king's...

Original caption: The second version of the English Bible, edited by John Rogers, who wrote under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew, either in fear of his life or to conceal the fact that a considerable part of this Bible was from the condemned...

Original caption: Hebrew text edited by Cornelius Adelkind, one of the few available Hebrew scholars and correctors of the press in Italy at this time. The Latin text, edited by Sebastian Mnster, exercised considerable influence on versions written...